A SUPERMARKET refused to sell a 46-year-old mum booze because staff thought she would give it to her underage daughter.

Angela Ives, of Brock Hill, Wickford, said she thought the checkout cashier was joking when he would not sell her alcopops and two bottles of fizzy white wine as part of her weekly food shop at Iceland in Wickford High Street.

Mrs Ives said the cashier seemed to think she was buying it on behalf of her 17-year-old daughter, Lauren, who was shopping with her at the time.

Mrs Ives said: “I was buying the drink for my older daughter, who is 19, and for some friends of mine as I’m planning to have a party this weekend.

“I couldn’t believe it when the man serving me said he wouldn’t sell me the alcohol.”

Mrs Ives said she complained to the store’s manager, but he said he was simply abiding by the law and doing his job.

She added: “It was so embarrassing and I’m so angry. I won’t be shopping there again for a long time.”

The law says it is illegal to sell alcohol to or procure alcohol for anyone under 18.

No one from Iceland would comment on the story when the Echo went to press.